it set the conservative blogosphere into motion. >> vice president biden made a number of comments iieve were over the top, to me, the vice president is attempting to use fear tactics on the american people. >> reporter: let me tell you the things, in case you haven't seen it, that make the blogosphere, the conservative blogosphere explode, just ask you a really direct question. >> sure. >> reporter: is it your intention to say, when you give these speeches that if republicans don't pass the president's jobs bill, they will be responsible for increases in rape and murder. >> well, no. here's what my point is. it is a fact, ever since i wrote the crime bill 20 years ago, we've put to rest the notion that if you have more cops, there's less crime. when you drastically cut the number of police in cities, which is happening all across america, crime goes up. that is a fact. now, they either are going to figure out how to help those cities the way we want to help them or some other way, but if they don't get help, crime is going to continue to go up. it's that simple. it's not an ideologi

cheer and say finally you should be even tougher on them i think the fact that the internet the blogosphere the social networks react to politics is a good thing it means there's a vivid feedback to what we're doing because reactions vary but this difference of opinions is one of the elements of direct democracy the modern twenty first century democracy of course internet polls and their results are not legally binding for governments nor do they accurately reflect all public opinion it's great that they're all those different opinions and i believe that the authorities should react to what's going on in the blogosphere without giving in to it pressure of course the government should be up to date and it should pay attention to appear. expressed including those expressed by the internet it's a must for any politician of any level in the world today switched because it's an optional coslet never to know mr president he noticed one alarming trend with our society lately namely that the public has been turning its back on politics turning its back on the government and no matter how successful

the global warming industry than it does funding skeptics contrary to what you might read in the blogosphere. an australian lager so of you may be familiar with her, she researched how much had been spent on the man-made global warming industry. since 1989, the u.s. government, the european union and so on have spent approximately five times the manhattan project funding research into man-made global warming. it is a lot of money. sometimes people ask me why would the scientists cheat the danger? why would the eisel reply to us? i can answer that follow the money. the manhattan project is repeated to have been the most expensive scientific project in history. we have spent five times that. if you are a scientist and you want to research the habits of squirrels you're not going to get your funding. you want to research how the habit grew and has been affected by climate change you will get the funding. i would like to dispute for a moment this word constantly used against people like me. i'm not dealing the climate changes nobody no use denying what climate change it has done over the millenn

crazy alert looks like occupy wall street haters are getting desperate the right wing blogosphere caught fire yesterday over claims that occupy demonstrators are an asymmetric nazis lie because protesters in denver are wearing twitter hash tags on their clothes to designate them as community organizers or leaders who can answer questions were dressed problems that arise in the crowd according one blogger from the far right website pajamas media these homemade ashton symbols constitute insignia that resembles swastikas as the blogger wrote don't these people see the acro of the swastika on their new pin power symbol now they realize that the early nazi party was also overtly and work out but almost now they know the early nazis try to garner sympathy with street rallies and margins they can't we're talking about baghdad symbol the pound symbol the same symbol it's in every trending topic on twitter it's on the bottom right hand corner of your telephone dial a did you know your phone may be a nazi communication device and you know the tick terror toas a secret nazi game is the game board i

conservatives are simply ridiculing take a look at this video it's making its way around the right wing blogosphere right now and some an occupy atlanta meeting in which the people occupy the park debated whether or not they should let congressman john lewis address the crowd. thank you thank you thank you. thank god. i didn't think i was. thinking. was thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. a. thank. you thank you and that went on for another long long ten minutes with the group finally deciding to invite not to invite congressman lewis to speak about my pointer and bring him back later because they hadn't figured finish for their own agenda items so any over the weekend i get a an e-mail with a clip of this from a friend of mine who's a conservative saying. you didn't find this whole process insane and my response was no in fact it insane that i thought it was a very serious losses you know from people who are participating i thought it was a really really see you know this you know the champ this is what democracy looks like. it democracy in the broadest sense in the p

. >> mormons are active in the blogosphere and you can see they are out there defending their faith. we are christians and we are not a cult. deal with it. i think you will see a lot of that going forward. >> we hope to talk with you soon. >> we would love to have you back on. >> new reaction from lawmakers to the occupy wall street protest. responses are falling along party lines and some may say this is predictable. one long shot, buddy roemer joined in new york and meanwhile other republicans are slamming the movement and one calling approximate t a mob aimed at class warfare. take a listen. >> i ran across two of the protests. in washington, d.c. and in boston. they have nothing in common with the protest that were being put forward or the demonstrations you might say that were put forward by the tea party. >> we ought to be pitting americans against americans. >> i. to work hard enough to not buy a cadillac and not take someone else's. >> they're defended the movement and supporteded the tea party. this is a contributor with the daily beaft. you were alive with us last week. the

the blogosphere is buzzing that carson palmer will be taking the snap even though he hasn't suited upense january? the coach is playing down that decision. he had his first practice after traded from the bengals three days ago. if palmer does start, he will go head to head with his former college roommate, matt cassel. they roomed together while playing at usc. both were recruited to play at usc by current raiders coach, hugh jackson, who used to be an assistant coach for the trojans and palmer was cassel's best man at his wedding. >>> michael phelps is going virtual with the release of this game. he is partnering up to create the world's first swimming game for x-box 360. it allows players to move their bodies to replicate his swimming style against other olympians. he is using his new game to help generate awareness. michael phelps "push the limit" is in stores right now. >>> more ahead. a tidal wave.wine wine. what sentat b bottltles of r red c crashshing g to t th. >>> good morning to you. the time now, 7:26, taking a live look at oakland just outside of city hall where you see ma

with the undercurrent the media isn't paying attention to, especially on the blogosphere. there are a lot of people who do not like it because it is an additive tax. i think rick perry probably got in the best shot of the night when he did talk about a state like new hampshire that has no sales tax. now you're introducing a tax including on food and medicine. how do you explain to people you'll now tax bread. that doesn't make any sense. he hasn't thought it through. >> the final question. if you could be brief. we had one fence last night. we have other the electrified fence. we had michele bachmann suggesting two fences. we had rick perry talking about predator drones and of course we've got the potential of alligators in a moat. what's next for the border? what do you think? >> you know, unmanned drones? heck, we got them. let's go ahead and use them. >> absolutely. thank you both for joining us this afternoon. >>> coming up, a nasty spill in las vegas as the cain train goes badly off the tracks. stay with us. [ male announcer ] succeeding in today's market requires mor

especially among the people who fight on this kind of network, fight on other networks, fight in the blogospherehe good old newspapers that we've grown up with. that war. i want to talk about that war. how does he win it? >> i think he wins it like, we're all voters. and some of us have opinions and get to talk about our opinions on tv. but, you know, the president gave some good advice there even if it would destroy our businesses. and people aren't going to do it. but people should get out of their houses and talk to their neighbors and so should he. i think the more we do that, chris, the more we realize the american people support core democratic ideals. the vast majority of people want tax increases for the wealthy. the vast majority of people wanted the president to stick with the jobs agenda and not turn to the deficit so quickly. they do not want cuts in social security or medicare. so i think we get really lost in this battle and i understand what he is saying that the beltway elite and the media define left and right in very rigid ways but common sense will tell us that he should be fi

there were a lot of questions about governor perry, i'm sure if he had been flat again, the right blogosphereod. some say maybe he overdid it, some say he was a little too mean but showed he was ready to fight. >> last night, he said he didn't have an economic plan, a lot of buzz it will be a flat tax, it will be ready later this week. he has to focus on energy and jobs and media spotlight favorable towards his ideas and less focused on how awful a debater he's been. >> does it matter how awful a e debater you are? you're the democrat in the room here. and i have to think that democratic president's pretty vulnerable. i need somebody a year from now that can hold his own in a debate. >> yes. people knew nothing about rick perry and all flocked to him. like anything else, if your first exposure is a bad exposure, you rush away. he will have a period of time over december to re-establish that. he's not coming from a neutral position. a lot of people have moved him to the negative side and will be a challenge for him. >> the romney campaign. they claimed they did fine in the debate. didn't love

. >> how does play out in the blogosphere.th and today she said that president obama cost her son his job. that's not true. how is the reaction to mrs. perry been at the grass roots level? >> i don't think it's had much of an impact. i don't think i've seen much criticism of rick perry's faith. the it's the same people that went over mormons over the prop 8 issue are now in the position of defending mormons with mitt romney. so it's been a very interesting situation and i would have to disagree with mr. frohm. i don't think the rick perry speech is ignorant. i think, too, when you want to talk about their plans and whose record is what, rick perry's record as governor far outweighs the records of a lot of candidates, especially mitt romney. i had to clarify that. i had to put that out there. >> a spicy debate is a good thing. we've all watched with some fascination and some sort of where is this going question mark, the occupy wall street protest. but interestingly, on the campaign trail, we're going to have a little bit of fu

congress, paul ryan of kill medicare fame, he was praising herman cain's tax plan in the conservative blogosphere. and the republican party's beloved talk show host, rush limbaugh, spent yesterday essentially damning mitt romney with faint praise. >> romney is not a conservative. he's not, folks, but you can argue with me all day long an that, but he isn't. what he has going for him is that he's not obama. >> the thing that mitt romney has going for him according to rush limbaugh is the thing that 308 million other american citizens have going for them as well. their name is not barack obama. the republican establishment is not rallying behind mitt romney. not by a long shot. this election cycle has seen the lowest endorsement rate by republican establishment figures of any election in the last 30 years. this is "the huffington post" analysis today. at this point in years past republican establishment figures are publicly getting behind one candidate or another. look at where we are this year. not this time. not with mitt romney. if you are mitt romney in this failure to thrive scenario, yes, her

would label what we were doing as the work of the devil and people absolutely guaranteeing the blogosphere that i was on my way to hell. so it really drew a hostility. people felt that we were undercutting the way they defined their entire religious tradition, which is this oppositional and exclusionary approach. >> reporter: however, many of the students and faculty at claremont lincoln don't want to ignore the tensions and theological differences between their faiths. >> i hope there is conflict. i often say when we get together in interfaith dialogue we try to outnice each other and say, oh, you're wonderful, no, you're wonderful. if we're truly going to be conversation partner wes need to say, look, this is how i view your tradition. i think we also need to get in a conversation about history because so much of what we carry in interfaith dialogue is about the negative histories that each of our communities has had with one another. so if we're not willing to go there i don't think any of us are going to be able to move forward. >> reporter: beyond america's changing religious landscap

, a bizarre new campaign ad from surprise republican front-runner herman cain has the political blogosphere least smoking. abc's john berman explains why. >> reporter: herman cain's campaign is smoking. >> keep up the good work. >> reporter: not just latest national poll numbers that show him on top of the republican field. his campaign is literally smoking. in this video from his chief of staff which lit up the internet overnight. >> herman cain will put the united back in the united states of america. >> reporter: it made it all the way to "the view." >> are they going for the pro emphysema vote here? >> reporter: it is controversial. why is herman cain smiling. maybe because the hot topic on "the view" was this video and not rick perry's new flat tax plan. the smoking chief of staff says there was no subliminal message behind the ad, he just smokes. and herman cain is just herman cain. >> i love it. >> the american people look at herman as they look at themselves. >> reporter: traditional rules would dictate cain would be hurt by recent seeming contradictions on issues from abortion to n

louis cardinals are buzzing in the blogosphere.slammed a game winning homerun forcing a final game seven against the texas rangers tonight. it's exciting. 8:07 now. let's go back out to ann and brian. makes it fun to watch. >> thanks, natalie. i have to get going. i have to go tweet. >> is this really going to be the campaign of the morning? >> i don't know. i'm thinking about it. i have been close. >> come on, brian! get with the 21st century! let's get to brian -- or to al. >> al. >> al's got the weather. i have to get my brain on. >> come on, brian. get in the pool. it's fantastic. tell me, what's lbda? >> a disease similar to alzheimer's. it's very different and requires more types of treatment than alzheimer's. >> people want to find out more? >> go to lbda.org. october is lbda awareness month and we are on facebook. >> great. and you probably twitter as well, unlike brian williams. let's check your weather. our pick city of the day is going to be up and down the eastern seaboard. we are talking winter storm watches from roano

. >>> now for a look at "what's trending today" the blogosphere is buzzing with steve jobs last word,ical simpler mona simpson the apple founder gazed at his wife and children and said "oh wow, oh, wow, oh, wow" bfrgs passing abay. >>> the family of bernie madoff is already a hot topic on twitter, wife ruth and son andrew said they knewing in nothing about the scheme and the family was completely destroyed. ruth madoff told matt her life is always full of shame. >>> thousands are flocking to google's home page, putting the happy in halloween. shows people carving pumpkins that light up to say google. >> thank you very much. let's get a check of the weather from mr. roker. >> it's a little spooky out there boys and girls. for today we've got plenty of sunshine here in the northeast. you can see all the ghouls and goblins moving around in the day. a few spooky showers in the plains, and for tonight, look out, it's going to be cool and showery in the upper ohio river valley, a few mountain snow showers in the northern plains, we got nice mild conditions for trick-or-treaters through the

. >>> and the blogosphere is all steamed up, after paula deen got handy with matt tuesday. >> i knowatoes hot. >> i make you nervous, don't i? >> yes you do. look there's chocolate cake with this. >> you're not changing the subject. >> not surprisingly paula was recently named tv's sexiest chef by "maxim" magazine. matt i think you were blushing. >> i was surprised she really did. i've invited her back every day for the next six months also. >>> linda evans in the studio, known for some of the wild catfights she used to have with joan collins. >> yes. >> here we go, watch this, she goes after her. take that and that! oh! but you no he what? every once in a while it happens here as well. >> does it? >> yes, it does. >> oh, yeah. that's right. well, that's the harmony we have here on our family show, the "today" show. i don't know what does that. >> we love savannah, you know. >> she's not here today, i want to mention. anyway -- a check of the weather. >> i'm surprised you can move your neck after paula. wham! you need a chiropractor. who is this young man? >> eli. >> where are you fr

surprised that of the story about the white house yelling at you made it all over the conservative blogosphere? guest: i have no idea people would find is so interesting. host: questions about your politics, how would you respond? guest: both sides say things about me depending on the start i did. when i did a story on the republican representative with many credit have been weighing on the decision to resign, a charity that had mystery surrounding it, i was accused of banging on the republicans. and when i do stories that lead to perhaps democrat accountability, i am accused the other way. i am used to it. it goes with the territory. it does not bother me. i read about myself on both sides occasionally. host: when you are involved in a story such as this with a mexican drug cartels, even when you think about the story last week about their possible involvement with the iran assassinations that is alleged, you worry about your own safety? guest: i do. when i work on stories that kind of go that deep and go into mysterious things and you speak to a confidential informant and that lead to duties

something called the blogosphere was created. huffington post was born in 2005. the apollo alliance, 2005. a man came out and said, would you please stop talking ignorant? that was 2005. look back at the big immigration marches that began to happen. look back at the heartbreak of katrina. look at the democracy alliance being formed. look back at tremendous innovation in the wake of a defeat. no messiah. no one leader. no super hero. you determine that to country would not go down the drain. he determined that mean people and dump people not ruin the country you live in. that was you in 2003 and 2004, 2005. by 2006, we had this tremendous breakthrough, and we were able to humiliate call wrote. karl rove said in 2004 the republicans are going to run america up for 40 years. we held them to 24 months because of you. give yourselves a round of applause for what you did. this is your movement. [applause] in that environment you created, we were so blessed that a young senator was willing to take a stand and to see that what you had built was going to be bigger than th